Synopsis

Los Angeles Premiere! SICK BIRDS DIE EASY, 2013, Gravitas Ventures, 100 min. A drug-addled conspiracy theorist, a love-drunk musician, and an American film crew head deep into the jungles of Western Africa searching for Iboga, an extremely potent psychedelic plant said to have the ability to heal drug addiction; what initially begins as a trip towards enlightenment then becomes a desperate attempt at maintaining sanity. Director Nicholas Fackler provides a mad mix of compellingly hilarious characters to explode the fiction/non-fiction divide in this mind-bending social experiment. Discussion follows with director Nicholas Fackler.